Auction News

Residents of Lichfield and visitors alike will be all too familiar with this iconic view of the ‘Ladies of the Vale’. It is actually a blue transfer design on one of a pair of ceramic oval meat platters dating from c.1825. Made in Staffordshire and stamped ‘Tams Semi China’ they are titled [Read More]

Sotheby’s spring 2009 sale of Latin American Art in New York brought a total of $9,422,625 (est. $10.6/14.3 million). The top lot of the two-day sale was Diego Rivera’s Niña con rebozo, a work in tempera on linen which sold last night for $794,500, well above a high estimate of $450,000 and [Read More]

Christie’s Latin American Sale totaled $11,004,350, led by strong results for Mario Carreño, Leonora Carrington, and Diego Rivera. Five new world auction records were achieved for artists Leonora Carrington, René Portocarrero, Helio Oiticica, Roberto Aizenberg, and Lygia Pape. The sale was 68% sold by lot and 77% by value. Icons of Latin [Read More]

A hoard of 400-year-old coins discovered in the wall of a long-forgotten cellar is expected to sell for £50,000 in a sale at London specialist coins and medals auctioneers Morton & Eden. The 57 gold “Unites” date from the reign of James I (1603-1625) and were probably hidden at the beginning of [Read More]

(MALVERN, Penn.) – An original oil on board painting of a lone woman by the sea, done by the renowned Dutch artist Josef Israels (1824-1911), sold for $20,700 at a multi-estate sale held Apr. 25 by Gordon S. Converse & Co., the fledgling auction firm launched just last year. The painting – [Read More]

Following a “photocall” press release circulated on Tuesday 26th May the press & media arrived at McTear’s on Wednesday 27th May. Those present included television film crews, the world’s largest news agency and the world’s most influential photo agency….it is even featured on the Wall Street Journal! The Telegraph and The Herald [Read More]

On 17 June 2009 Sotheby’s France will present an exceptional sale of tribal art, featuring the personal collection of Philippe Guimiot and his wife Domitilla de Grunne, alongside works from European and American collections. PHILIPPE GUIMIOT & DOMITILLA DE GRUNNE COLLECTION OF TRIBAL ART The sixty-five selected works in the collection from [Read More]

Ritchie Bros. Auctioneers , the world’s largest industrial auctioneer, will be holding a large, multi-million dollar, unreserved public auction at its permanent site in Denver, Colorado on Thursday, June 4, 2009 and Friday, June 5, 2009, starting at 8:00 a.m. each day. More than 1,600 items will be sold to the highest [Read More]

Medals awarded to the 11th Hussars trumpeter said to have sounded the Charge of the Light Brigade are to be sold by specialist London coins and medals auctioneers Morton & Eden on June 10. The four medals, including the British Crimea War Medal with clasps for the battles at Alma, Balaclava, Inkermann [Read More]

Wagner Sells For Record $400,000, Old Judge Collection sells for $211,000, T206 Doyle hammered down at $329,000, Countless Baseball Card Auction Records Shattered At REA Watchung, New Jersey. The strength of the high-end baseball card and memorabilia market shocked collectors at Robert Edward’s record-setting May 2, 2009 auction. The most anticipated baseball [Read More]

Australian Muscle Car collectors will be closely monitoring Shannons upcoming Melbourne Winter Auction on June 1, when three highly desirable limited-build vehicles will go under the hammer. Ford fanciers will be particularly interested in the multi-award winning two-owner 1978 Ford XC Falcon Cobra Coupe (build number 392 out of 400) that has [Read More]

The countryside south of Lake Billy Chinook has unique scenery and some of the best hunting in the Pacific Northwest. But what it doesn’t have is a current firm market value on which everyone can agree, because land in the area has rarely been placed on the market. That’s why Ralph De [Read More]

An extensive grouping of original Harry Potter editions – including three complete sets, two of which are signed, and an original first printing English hardcover, with all first edition points – will be auctioned during Heritage Auction Galleries’ June 16-17 Grand Format Rare Books Auction. The trove of English and American first [Read More]

On June 12th 2009, Sotheby’s New York will hold its sale of Important 20th Century Design which will included a unique offering by Frank Gehry, a Tuyomyo bench (est. $250/350,000). The sale takes a reverse chronological look at both American and European design in the past century starting with contemporary pieces and [Read More]

(HILLSBOROUGH, N.C.) – More than 800 lots of fresh-to-the-market merchandise, in a broad array of categories, will be sold at a two-day Historic Hillsborough Auction the weekend of June 13-14 by Leland Little Auction & Estate Sales, Ltd. It is the grand opening event for the firm at its new, 10,000-square-foot, state-of-the-art [Read More]

Bonhams & Goodman sold an original Superman costume in its Melbourne salerooms yesterday. The atmosphere was electric as eager bidders in the saleroom and on the telephone all vied for the rare piece of cinematic history. One bidder in the room dropped out early and three bidders from the United States, Dubai [Read More]

On 26 & 27 May 2009 at the Hôtel Drouot in Paris, auctioneer Rodolphe Tessier will offer for sale a wealth of items from the Estate of Marcel Marceau. The exceptional auction pays homage to one of the most fabled French performing artists of the 20th century, whose poetic genius was renowned [Read More]

A gem-like blue vase, that has survived intact for five centuries and was once owned by the Rothschild family, is estimated to sell for around £220,000 at Bonhams next sale of Fine British and European Glass on 3rd June. Known as the Field Cup, it is a highly important Venetian enamelled and [Read More]